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Hey, welcome to another bonus episode of the Daring Creativity Podcast.
I'm back to unpack some of the gems from this week's conversation, pulling out those moments that deserve a second look and dig deeper in what makes them special.
This week, I spoke to Elana Raddick, the founder and creative director of Design is Yummy, a Montreal-based studio that spent two decades doing purpose-driven creative work for non-profits, education and arts and culture clients.
In our conversation, we talked about what it means to slow down in a world speeding up, why thinking is becoming more valuable than making, and how a chocolate bar wrapper once got her job of her dreams.
The episode, published a few days ago, was titled Dare to Shift Back to Human, and we unpacked 20 years of building something rare, a studio with genuine soul.
If you haven't checked out the full episode, let me share with you four standout moments from our conversation.
It was a nice reframe from Ilana.
At a time when everyone's talking about AI speeding up production, Ilana was reframing the entire debate by separating the act of making from the act of thinking.
I'm a big fan of thinking, if I can say myself.
I think there is something about magical about the process when you have time to think about what you're trying to make rather than spending 27 tries to unlock a problem.
So in Alana's case, obviously, she's highlighted that thinking and making is not the same skill.
I mean, you don't need to be more than five years old to know that.
But what AI has done is widened the gap dramatically between thinking and making, which means the value of genuine, unhurried thinking hasn't decreased.
It's skyrocketed.
Her point is that direct challenge to anyone who's been treating ideation and execution as one continuous workflow, dare not.